Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that one expands the senses or compels the imagination. The gallerygoer cannot stop the tastemaker from talking. But he can stop listening quite so docilely. Ultimately, art can be of value to him or to posterity only if it somehow enhances his own awareness of the world-by sight, touch or emotion-but it has to be his own decision. He has a duty to look long, learn and then judge, to like or not to like. He may make hideous mistakes. That is his risk-too few people take it-and better than abdicating personal reaction in favor...
...crop and thereby set the market, have slashed their prices by as much as 30%. In turn, supermarket chains in New York, Chicago and other areas last week cut frozen-juice prices from 180 or 20? to 15? per 6-oz. can. The end is nowhere in sight. "There's no way to stop the assembly line," wails Robert Rutledge, executive vice president of the Florida Citrus Mutual. "Only one power can pull the switch, and He hasn't sent us either frost or hurricane this year." Next to Him, the grower's best friend is Agriculture...
...however compassionate it may be) and the personal episodes following. I think we can guess pretty safely that the earlier episodes, in the dance-hall, are not quite Forman's natural idioms, but more that of his exemplar Ermanno Olmi (Forman eulogized Olmi's Sound of Trumpets in a Sight and Soundinterview last winter). Rereading that interview, I find Forman saying...
Joanie Phoanie is a sight. She has a roller coaster of a nose, unraveled hair, and sandal straps that look as if they're devouring her legs. She douses herself with deodorant, wolfs down caviar in front of famished children. She sings of brotherhood to incite student riots...
...making a speech in Houston, Kennedy's hands shook so violently that they seemed palsied. "To his audiences," writes Manchester, "his easy air seemed unstudied. The illusion of spontaneity was almost perfect; only his hands would have betrayed him, and he was careful to keep them out of sight...